Custom Rules

[Jeff Graves]

I'm getting a bunch of spamis spam slipping through and I'm running older
versions of MailScanner and spamassasin (about a year old). I don't have
time right now to update or patch MailScanner or spamassin or add new
rules_du_jour or whatever. All I'd like to do for the time being, is add a
quick custom rule to catch this phrase "[ S P A M I S  NOTIFICATION ]:" but
I have no Perl regex experience. Spamassasin --lint complains about this
syntax to local.cf:

body SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE \b\[ S P A M I S NOTIFICATION\]
describe SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE Detects spam sent by spamis
score SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE 12.0

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spamassassin --lint
Backslash found where operator expected at /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf,
rule SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE, line 1, near "b\"
Backslash found where operator expected at /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf,
rule SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE, line 1, near "NOTIFICATION\"
Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
        (syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, rule
SPAMIS_CUSTOM_RULE, line 1, near "b\"

I thought [] were reserved and need to be escaped with \... Help!

Jeff Graves, MCSA
Image Source, Inc.
10 Mill Street
Bellingham, MA 02019

508.966.5200 x31 - Phone
508.966.5170 - Fax
jeff at image-src.com - Email
www.image-src.com 

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